Prof. Emilie Yueh Yu YEH

Biography

Professor Yeh is a recognized specialist in Chinese and Asian cinema studies. Between 2005 and 2014, she was appointed as Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University, and as Visiting Research Fellow at the Carsey-Wolf Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was also the Director of Centre for Media and Communication Research and Associate Director of David Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Professor Yeh holds editorial memberships at several international and regional journals. She served as a panel member in the 2014 RAE exercise. She served on the Jury of the Golden Horse Film Awards twice (Taiwan), the Asian Television Awards (Singapore), the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards and the Hong Kong Fresh New Wave Film Competition. She was also a consultant for the Motion Picture Association of America. She won two outstanding scholarly performance awards from the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University, and has been awarded research grants from Research Grants Council, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and funding agencies from Australia and the United States. She has published 9 books and over 60 academic articles, some of which have been translated into other languages, including Japanese, Spanish, Hungarian and Chinese.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

PhD. Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California.

2008-9 General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) “On Wenyi: Establishing a Generic and Critical Category in Chinese Film Studies,” Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. HK$654,100.

Recent Conference Presentations

2016 “Projecting the Past: A Little History of Early Cinema in Hong Kong,” Situating Huallywood: Cinematic Interconnections in the Asia-Pacific, Zhejiang University, May 14-15.

2014 “Translating Yingxi: On Early Chinese Film Scholarship.” Early Taiwan Cinema and East Asia: Methodology and Comparative Context. Taipei National University of Arts. April 26.

2011 “Rethinking Chinese Film Industry: New Histories and New Methods.” International Conference on “Chinese-language Film Industry: History, Contemporary Development and Methods.” Shanghai International Film Forum 2011, Shanghai University, June 9-11.

2017 “Policy and Economy of Co-productions: Hong Kong Cinema in the China Market.” Film Policy Symposium: Film Policies in Transition—Globalization, Digitization and the Rise of Protectionism. King’s College London, June 2.

2015 “Zimuzu and the Media Industry in China.” Beyond “Asian Extremes”: A Workshop on New Media and Cinema Practices in Southeast and East Asia, New York University Asian Film and Media Initiative. May 1-2.

2014 “From Yingxi to Yinghua: Early Chinese Film Genealogy and Early Film in Hong Kong.” The History of Movie Going, Exhibition and Reception Project, NECS 2014 Conference, Milan June 17-20.

Teaching

Postgraduate Courses

Critical Approaches to Film and Digital Media

Communication Research Task Force

Classics and Milestones in Communication Research

Current Issues in Asian Media

Independent Readings in Communication: Film Theory; Hong Kong Auteurs in Hollywood; Theories on Film Politics and Political Cinema; Feminist Film Theory; Youth Culture and Rock’n’Roll; Japanese Horror Film and Motherhood; Chinese Drama Series and Ideology; Chinese Film Musicals; Political Economy of Chinese Film.